Studio: international art (62.1914)

Studio-Talk

scene with sinister insight into the emptiness of what he believed to be his duty, and he laid down
some people's lives and with a masterly directness of so plainly the lines along which he believed the
style. Mr. C. J. Holmes perhaps touched his high- whole of his effort ought to run, that his pictures
watermark \nCraig-y-Sy(Ae,L/a/i/wdr,huthewa.snlso must all be taken as equally important illustrations
interesting in The Burning Kiln, the composition of of his own personal creed and as helping each one
which will be appreciated in our reproduction. to make his position in the art world more intelli-
Another interesting picture, reproduced, is Mrs. E. gible. His artistic outlook varied little throughout
G. Wheatley's The Interruption. Mr. C. M. Gere his life, and his pictures vary only in the degree of
exhibited this year with greater success than he has command over technical devices which is revealed
ever previously attained, in the type of landscape in them. The precision and exactness of touch
which he has peculiarly identified with his name. which was characteristic of his work in his earlier
Mr. F. H. S. Shepherd's Head of a Young Girl, years gave way later to freer and more spontaneous
Mr. Eric George's Return of the Dove to the Ark, methods, to a broader technical quality and a more-
Mr. Allan Gwynne-Jones's The Old Shepherd and suggestive manner of handling ; but to the last the
Mr. E. Buttar's Still Life we are reproducing and princiDles by which he was guided remained un-
the reader will be able to
appraise in them qualities
of design which entitle them
to be singled out.

The water-colours and
drawings were perhaps of
less interest this year than
is commonly the case in the
New English exhibitions,
though The Municipio,
Florence by Mr. F. S.
Unwin ; The Grand Canal,
Venice and Venice, Ponte
dei SS. Afiostoli by Mr.
Muirhead Bone; The
Boxers by Mr. W. Roberts ;
Richmond Castle by Mr.
David Muirhead; The
Dislocated Elbow by Mr.
Henry Tonks ; Anemones
by Mr. E. Best; Flower
Study by Miss Amy Kraus,
and the drawings of Mr.
McEvoy are all things to be
remembered with delight.

In the series of Albert
Moore's life works it would
be difficult to say which
are most definitely charac-
teristic and which best ex-
plain the purpose and
intention of his art. He
devoted himself so con-
sistently to the expression of
a certain conception of the
artist's mission, he had

always so clear an idea of (New English Art Club)

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HEAD OF A YOUNG GIRL BY P. H. S. SHEPHERD